Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tighten Up. To qualify for substantial foreign help, able Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres (a former economics professor) flew home from a last round of conferences in Washington and Paris, to start a long list of major reforms. The government decreed that the peseta, which up until now has been subject...
Hope for the Best. With so much to do in so short a time, a little confusion was inevitable, but the Franco regime has a special talent for it. Though the whole world knew about the devaluation of the new peseta, the government forgot to inform its own foreign-exchange...
Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad, 50, a balding, urbane diplomat fluent in Arabic, French and English, is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, later studied under Leftist Harold Laski at the University of London in the '30s, is married to a Swiss wife. Socialist-leaning himself, Jawad is...
Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid also studied under and was deeply influenced by that heady English socialist, Laski. Hadid insists that he is "not a dogmatic socialist now," but says: "We aim to pursue the progressive policy of the welfare state ... to level out incomes by means of taxation and social...
Castro was celebrating July 26, the anniversary of the day six years ago that he fired a 12-gauge shotgun to signal the start of an abortive attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Moncada Barracks, in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago. He also needed a display of hero...